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Tweak says, "Can you can can?"

Angelina Johnson (angie_j) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-07-08 23:23:00

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character: angelina johnson, character: marcus flint, character: roger davies

RP: Team Bonding
Who: Angelina, Marcus, and Roger
What: Working on their moves and getting food
Where:Arrows Pitch, and then Finnigan's
When: Tuesday 7th July [backdated]
Rating: NSFW possible (language)

By the time quarter to four on Tuesday rolled around Angelina was sitting outside the players entrance to the Arrows stadium. Her broom was sitting next to her, she was already wearing practice gear, and her change of clothes for later along with her wash gear was in the bag on her other side. Her camera was also in there, and she could have wandered around the stadium looking for interesting quirks of the building to photograph but she didn't want to miss her team mates arriving so she had parked herself by the door. She could have gone inside of course but she wasn't totally familiar with the building yet and this way she was unlikely to miss them. She wasn't quite sure if they would be arriving together, although the fact they'd replied to her message with a joint owl had been pretty funny. If she was reading right Marcus was much more formal than Roger, which tallied with what she knew of them from school.

She'd never played with either of them of course, but she had experience playing against them both. She was sure their skills and playing styles had moved along since then, but she couldn't wait to see how they all worked together. Put together moves in ways that made sense for the three of them. She was blanking right now as to whether the chaser she was replacing in the first team was male or female. She hoped that neither of them had issues with playing with a woman. Most players didn't, but Flint had been a Slytherin and they could sometimes be a bit... off. Gwenog Jones and her massive metaphorical balls aside.

She fished her watch out of her pocket and glanced at it. It was running close to four now. It seemed like neither of the men were in the 'must be early to everything' team like she was, but it didn't bother her that much. It wasn't like there were coaches here to yell at them. It was just a getting-to-know-you type arrangement.

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angie_j
2015-07-14 02:50 pm UTC (link)

"Well, I'm pretty hard to shock, so that shouldn't be a problem, although I can be creative with the swearing, and occasionally I overshare a bit, but since you've already got that covered I'll just remember to reciprocate when I've got something interesting going on!" she said with a wicked grin. She might or might not bother, but sometimes things just came out.

She chuckled and grinned brightly. "Well, we can try. Mostly I'm just used to waiting around for other people and it doesn't bother me. I'm a photographer too, so I usually just drag my camera out and start taking photos of stuff. I would have done it today, but I didn't want to miss you," she said with a shrug. It was true too, she had a couple of cameras and one of them was small enough to carry around regardless of the size of bag she was carrying. Well, assuming she wasn't at an event that required her to have a tiny handbag, and even then if it was a wizarding event she had had most of her bags modified to accommodate her camera too.

She cheerfully hefted her bag into a slightly more comfortable hold and started to follow Roger. "Oh, I don't know. Being an adult is overrated, and I might want my camera," she said. She might be shorter than both men by a few inches but she used to keeping up with people and working fast so she kept up easily. "So long as you show me where they are after I'll be fine."

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marcedflint
2015-07-15 12:36 pm UTC (link)

"Seems I'll be the only one with any sense of propriety around here," Marcus commented dryly, though not truly upset. It wasn't unusual for him to be the most reserved person in the locker room, and he'd lost count of the times one teammate or another had told him to 'lighten up.'

"I will certainly try," he agreed with Angie's statement. At her mention of photography, he asked curiously, "Professional endeavor or personal hobby?" He considered himself lucky to have been picked up professionally after his release, since he didn't have many other marketable skills, but it was always interesting to him what others might be doing if they weren't playing.

Marcus shrugged, and said, "I'm not adverse to getting in the air sooner rather than later. And we are the only ones here." It wouldn't do any harm to leave their gear in the stands while they flew. "Did anyone remember to bring a Quaffle, or are we going to have to break into Fitzpatrick's office again?"

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rogeringdavies
2015-07-22 09:21 pm UTC (link)

Roger grinned wickedly at Angie and lazily flipped Marcus off. "Come now darling, you know you love being surrounded by crazy free spirits. You wouldn't change me for the world, just like I wouldn't change you." He turned back to Angie and smiled. "This one acts tough, but he's got a heart of gold."

He lifted his eyebrows with interest at Angie's statement, and chuckled slightly at Roger's reply - the other man had a fascination with the hobbies and jobs that Quidditch players had. "That's amazing! I love photography, are you good? I mean obviously that's a highly subjective question, but..." He trailed off and grimaced at himself. "Why do you allow me to open my mouth sometimes," he asked Marcus.

"Then it's decided," he said leading the way. "We'll eschew being adults for the day and go instead for the fun option." He rolled his eyes and hefted one of his bags for emphasis. "No dear, I remembered to bring a quaffle this time. Plus, what the FitzPatrick doesn't know won't hurt them." He turned and shot Angie a cheeky grin. "Plus nothing wrong with a bit of judicious breaking and entering right?"

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angie_j
2015-07-22 10:56 pm UTC (link)

Angie couldn't help but laugh slightly at their banter. Clearly they had a good relationship, even if it did seem to involve a fair amount of bickering. At least it seemed to be the sort of bickering that would stay off the pitch, because a chasing team where two of the three members were actually fighting was a recipe for disaster.

She shrugged lightly. "Started out as a hobby, something I did a bit of back in school, and it was fantastic for capturing what was going on in New Zealand to let my family know. I got known among the team and one of the Beaters asked me to take some pictures at a party they were having and one thing led to another. I had a decent sideline on off-days. I mean it's a hobby too, but I had a business of my own out of it. I'm thinking I'll set-up again if I can get some interest," she said.

She looked specifically at Roger and gave him a deliberately flirtatious look. "And, babe I am good at everything I do!" she said, managing to keep the look for a few second before cracking up laughing. "No, but really, I'm good," she said as the laughter abated again. "I'm not doing much in the elaborate photoshoot line, but I take a good portrait or party shot, and I make for a good sports photographer," she said. "Oh, and I love shooting the night sky, but that's because I'm an astronomy fan too," she said, springing up and down on the spot slightly.

"Oh, I see how it is. We're getting me in trouble before my first official practice, huh?" she said, but she was grinning. She'd always been a bit more of a troublemaker than some people gave her credit for. Or at least she was an admirer of it.

As they worked their way out of the tunnel and onto the pitch Angie's body sang with the sort of delight she got from a few different directions, but mostly from Quidditch. It was her first passion. She gave a little whoop, dashed forward, dropping her bag at the side of the pitch and leaping onto her broom and into the air, corkscrewing quickly up and then over in a loop-the-loop.

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rogeringdavies
2015-08-06 10:20 pm UTC (link)

Roger snorted at Marcus, but subsided to listen to his new teammate. "That makes sense actually," he said with a nod. "I hear New Zealand is amazing. Plus the newest Chaser for the Arrows would definitely be able to drum up some business, wouldn't you say babe?"

He rolled his eyes at her mock flirtation and stuck his tongue out at her. "Now now, none of that, I'm a one man (or woman) man." He laughed along with her, already deciding that they'd definitely get on like a house on fire. Possibly even a whole city block on fire. "That sounds much more fun than boring posed shots though. I always prefer candid shots with wizarding photographs. I think posed shots work better with non-moving forms.

"You bet your arse I am," he said with a lascivious wink at both her and his no-doubt slightly scandalised boyfriend.

He grinned as he watched her take off and quickly jumped onto his own broom, hurtling into the sky and performing a series of hair-raising somersaults before turning sharply to look down at Marcus. "Well, are you coming up old man or staying down there on the ground?"

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marcedflint
2015-08-09 05:33 pm UTC (link)

Marcus chuckled at the back and forth between Roger and Angelina, seeing already that the two of them would probably get along wonderfully. That might not necessarily be an indicator that they would all make a good team, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.

He rolled his eyes at Roger's ridiculousness, but didn't comment, already starting to turn his focus towards flying.

The 'old man' comment hit a little closer to home than Roger had probably intended - Marcus was well aware that his age was at the high end of professional players, especially for a sport that recruited teenagers and he was half a year away from turning thirty. "Just giving you a head start, Davies," he said with a grin before jumping on his own broom, shooting straight up into the air higher than either of them.

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angie_j
2015-08-09 07:58 pm UTC (link)

"I try not to trade on my name too much, but it can be a decent boost," she admitted. Of course the fact she'd started by helping former team mates out played into that policy a lot.

She wrinkled her nose at Roger's description of posed shots. "Yeah, a lot of them can be boring, but once in a while they're great if someone gets creative, like properly creative," she said. Not her thing, she preferred to capture what was already there most of the time.

Once they were all up in the air Angelina looked at the men's flying positions. Everybody's was a little different, and could sometimes tell you a little about their flying style, but she wasn't getting much from these two straight off. "Last names in the air?" she asked. That was pretty common in her experience, assuming names weren't more than a couple of syllables. "I respond to Johnson, John, and 'Son, just fine. Start using references to my gender and I'll respond in a match because I need to but we're going to have words," she warned. She was used to being in a team with a decent mix of men and women in the usual line up selections but she'd still experienced that from team mates and opposition players alike. She didn't think that either of them were likely to do that but you never knew.

She pushed herself higher to be on a level with Marcus, gesturing Roger closer. "So, do you have preferred formations? I'm used to changing up depending on opponents, but I've had some success with a Stacking approach as long as it's not used too often and well practiced," she said, referring to a move where Chasers flew in distinct layers and either dropped the ball down to the player below and then sped down to become the bottom layer, or the reverse, carefully throwing the ball upwards. It could be tricky to pull off, particularly the latter option, but it gave beaters a harder time and if you could manage to reverse direction mid-attack it really screwed with the opposing chasers too

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